15 Oct. 1814

Logic

Ch. │ │ Methodization

Use Application

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Indebted - wrong[?] to. Refer this to Causation.

In the investigation of the uses capable of being made of this operation - or figuratively speaking of this instrument, for clearness of conception it will be proper to be careful not to confound this operation with the aggregate of the operations of which logic is capable of taking the direction, nor, as some appear to have done, with the art of literary composition to whatsoever subject applied. +[1] On the one hand co-acervation and successive exhibition - these and these alone are strictly and properly speaking the functions of methodization - the two branches of the art. +[2]

Whatsoever assistance a different and distinguishable operation may be capable of receiving from this methodization, it is not to methodization alone that the work performed by means of that other operation can with propriety be referred.

Great for example is the assistance which from this source, invention has already drawn: still greater perhaps the assistance which it may yet be capable of deriving. Yet it is not by methodization alone that what has been performed in the way of invention has been performed. From chance and to analogy great also have been its debts: to this or that single and insulated analogy presented in some happy moment by the hand of Chance.

+[1] v. infra Saunderson's Rules of Method.

+[2]  But may it not be considered as applicable to two sets of subjects, viz. Entities real or fictitious considered in and by themselves. 2. any portion of literary discourse considered in respect of the matter or parts of which it is composed.

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